Refrigerated trucks and railroad cars have had a great impact on the economy and eating habits of Americans. As the United States became more urbanized, the demand for fresh food shipped over long distances increased. Meat products were especially in...

A refrigerator car (or "reefer") is a refrigerated boxcar, a piece of railroad rolling stock designed to carry perishable freight at specific temperatures. Refrigerator cars differ from simple insulated boxcars and ventilated boxcars (commonly used for...

Tropicana Products Inc. owns about 250 custom-built refrigerated railroad cars, which are used to transport its orange juice from Bradenton, FL, to a distribution center in Jersey City, NJ. Tropicana is retrofitting 139 railcars to use DuPont Suva refrigerants. Some cars having obsolete refrigeration...

Retrofitting automobile air conditioners with environmentally safer refrigerants may be less complicated than previously thought. For example, Castrol Inc researchers drained R-12 refrigerant and mineral oil from some automotive air conditioners without removing the compressor. The systems were then charged with R-134a refrigerant and...

The Texas Water Safari begins with a gunshot that sends 200 paddlers madly thrashing across a murky pond. Multicolored boats, ranging from six-man scull-like canoes to single-seat kayaks, barrel into each other, tipping and tossing their pilots into the water. The bigger boats slam into...